Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan
Grace Elisabeth Lavery
Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan
Grace Elisabeth Lavery
How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics
From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a cradle of exquisite beauty. Quaint, Exquisite explores the enduring impact of this dramatic encou
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